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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.[/quote]

But do you want to chat with people in the high $ party you are going that you spent 4 years of your youth at Harvard or you went to Podunk University?[/quote]

What kinds of parties do you go to where people ask that??

I haven’t been asked about college in years. I’m in my 40s.[/quote]
seriously. if i'm at a party and someone asks me where i went to college, i'll know something has gone very, very wrong. so boring.[/quote]

This is an indication of someone who went to Harvard just to prove their self worth. Obviously, they  have deeper issues at play.

I am a professor, and had a colleague like this. When the students did skits at the end of the year, they imitated faculty members. When they played him, they started every lecture with, "Did I mention that I went to Harvard?" Even the kids thought he was pathetic!

Actually, it  has been my experience that most people who went to Ivy league schools find a way to bring it up in every conversation. My friends and I joke about it all the time. [/quote]

You are going to boring parties.[/quote]

Agreed. Know a guy who went to HBS and is reasonably successful ($300k). He always makes a point for people to know that he went there. Very tiresome and boring! [/quote][/quote]

Know a guy who went to Arundel Community College and is reasonably successful ($300k). He always makes a point for people to know that he went there. Very tiresome and boring!
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